Moliere

This morning I went chasing a quote and dug up this: On His Own Ignorance And That of Many Others II, Petrarch The quote I had in mind was "It is bett...

Right! If "studying the highest good" is going into a monastic life in order to improve oneself and happens to include reading texts then I think I ca...

M'kay. I can at least think about it now. I was just confused as to what you were saying.

Sweet. OK, so rephrasing the thesis with justification: "The study of value is the highest good, because we have to be able to value what is good in c...

That's the start of a reason, I think. I'm reading you as saying "Because we have to be able to value what is good in comparison with other goods to b...

Not "What is of highest good?" -- I'm asking what would it count to be a "highest good" at all? Or, perhaps easier: Why axiology and not something els...

What's a highest good? If I were to say "Happiness is the highest good, because it leads to all the others", then how might you say the philosophical ...

Then I don't think I understand after all. What does "The assessment of the truth of the thing or lack thereof" mean? That it has been judged or justi...

Episode 21. Interesting parallels between McLuhan and Hegel. I've heard a lot of Novak's quotes, but I cannot remember from where (did I read McLuhan ...

I understood better what you meant when you explained it -- I'd have called the concept https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.2...

As boring as my original advice. ;) I know nothing about AI venture capitalist future learning in libraries, but I know that you can't really put a pr...

One way to look at education is as a democratic institution because it offers equality of opportunity -- rather than being stuck with the profession y...

I don't think in a fundamental way, no, because they are both senses-- just in terms of what using the sense of sight as a metaphor for all senses sug...

That's what I was thinking with the term, too -- objects with affordances make sense of a cat's or a bat's experience being different, but still about...

My thought is that representationalism is tempting because we often think in terms of vision, but our bodily sensations are sense-organs too: yet we'd...

Right. My take is that there isn't really evidence for indirect realism as much as indirect realism is an interpretation of what we know -- so I'm pro...

Well... there is a normal, but I agree it's not normal... In an attempt to bring it back: that notion of normal, so it seems to me, is more of an indi...

hell yeah. It's nice to see someone with your struggles succeed. It makes me feel like I can do it too.

yes. The person on NPR obviously is receiving help. I also receive help others don't need. These conditions can inflict a lot of pain, and as a person...

Yeh, but Derrida and Levinas baptized his thoughts, if not his soul. ;)

I don't think I'd be a Marxist if I thought we are stuck with our own worldview. It's not like I started thinking these thoughts from birth, right? Th...

Yes.

I think "information" counts as kind of idealism, if you're positing it as a kind of fundamental substance that everything is composed of. I'm attempt...

Eh, not other dimensions, no. Just the mind interacting with itself -- something the mind is trained to ignore to pay attention to the important thing...

Right -- but indirect realism has problems. These are explanations for phenomena used to support indirect realism which don't resort to the position o...

I think hallucinations are a different case than illusions in that I wouldn't reconcile them the same way. Illusions can be covered pretty well by the...

Let's go with 's link and pick out a definition, such as: So I'd claim that I am aware of my toe, and that awareness is not intentional, which I take ...

Then I'd set aside whether we are conscious or figure out some other way to work consciousness into an account of direct, or naive, realism. Especiall...

That consciousness literally extends outside of the head and touches the world is kind of why the problem of consciousness is a big deal for some. Gra...

I think I've managed to rephrase in these terms in my conversation with @"Apustimelogist" And I believe I accept "literally extend beyond the subject'...

My thinking is that we're ignorant about any relationship between awareness (or perception) and experience, so we ought not believe people who claim t...

The indirect realist says that we are acquainted with sense-data, and that we only infer that there are objects from that sense data. I believe we are...

Well, I hope not. That's the idea! :D Notice how it parallels the claim of indirect realism -- experience or sense data is what we are directly acquai...

I could just be cribbing from him. I read that book forever ago. "Empirical" works for me. Mostly I just mean -- what would I believe, given what I kn...

Weekends and laziness put a delay on my reply, but I finally thought of something. There's three kinds of possibility I want to distinguish: Logical, ...

https://youtu.be/mTfDh2GE5V8?si=zVV6xiJ0DdU_AHaY If you're familiar with Disco Elysium then I think this is a good album which Sad FM mimicked well.

I admire him

Ah, sorry. (EDIT: just for missing this last question, I mean -- I looked over what I wrote and saw I posted before I responded here) Yes, I think tha...

I don't think so, no. Maybe? but also maybe the only way to do so is to envat the brain in a body that lives a life. I see it as a logical possibility...

I started with something substantive, but the reason I put smilies on my answer was because it was a minimalist position which seemed to be similar to...

I think the BiV is a thought experiment that updates Descartes' Evil Demon to a scientific world. Descartes used theology because it was popular then,...

I've taken up the "direct" side, but only lightly. Others have been doing the heavy lifting.

It seems to me that this is a primary point of contention. I'd prefer "realism" over "direct realism" -- the "direct" part is more defined by the "ind...

The aesthetic might parallel wind here: there are gradients within the aesthetic. The beautiful and the sublime come to mind; and here these gradients...

Great OP. I would have said your example of the person with the rule to not cross their fingers while urinating is a good example of a non-moral act i...

I'll push against the notion that Paul only spent so many years, tho maybe you could find a bit in the movie that proves it :) -- the movie felt more ...

I don't agree with his philosophy at all -- even the bit on free will I think is some really good philosophy, but I disagree with it entirely. I'm mor...

Daniel Dennett has passed on. News from one of his philosophical opponents. He was a deep thinker. I believe I've said it before, but he has the disti...

That works for me. I'd claim that we have knowledge of perception and we have knowledge of objects. It seems, right now, that the difference might be ...

We have access to percepts. And we have access to the world. It is through this access that we are able to determine when we are hallucinating or drea...